Ideas for skin and bone from a picnic?

[hoovarmin]

I deboned and skinned a picnic for carnitas today and saved both. What is the consensus of the group for what I should do with them? Throw them away?

[Richard Chrz]

Don’t throw them away! The bone could be used for a bone stock that you could add left over pork scraps and beans and make a great soup, pork stock is also great for ramen.The skin, I’m sure you can turn it into cracklings. Or even drop it in your bone broth if nothing else. I’m certain others will have better suggestions, but, those are money for some cooks!

[hoovarmin]

I'm not. With grocery prices as they are right now I am making more of an effort than I ever have to eliminate waste. Good thoughts on the bone, especially. I've never made a pork stock before, but now I'm on a mission.

[mrteddyprincess]

hoovarmin I agree with saving bones from cooks to make stock. I just used three shoulder bones from pork. If I am deboning a pork shoulder to grind it up for sausage, there's leftover meat attached to it. So I just boil it until the meat part comes off. Then I bag it up and save it to be roasted at a later time. I'll put three or four in the oven for about an hour at 450 F to make broth. Excellent base for beans. Good thinking Richard Chrz !

[FireMan]

What does a picnic that has been skinned look like?

[hoovarmin]

It ain't pretty. Think "Silence of the Lambs."

[JCBBQ]

“That Jim Pembry!”

[HawkerXP]

I know you're talking pork but I save Mrs. H uneaten chicken skin to wrap around my fishing bait (catfish).

[Oak Smoke]

That’s genius!

[texastweeter]

Or make chicken cracklins

[barelfly]

Chicharones!!!!!!! Make some carne adovada for a chicharon burrito

Is the bone clean, or have some anything on it still? Could use it for a pot of beans or broth like Richard mentions.

[barelfly]

Of course there is hoovarmin ! For the carne adovada…I highly suggest my recipe and the chicharones, just frying up as you would.

https://pitmaster.amazingribs.com/forum/recipes-technique-food-cooking/soup-chili-and-stew-recipes/1149212-new-mexican-carne-adovada

[barelfly]

The way I’ve had these, a normal burrito but the chicharon is inside the burrito with the carne adovada, along with cheese. Then roll up the tortilla and smother with more carne with a little more cheese. You could add some refried or pinto beans as well (hint for the bone you have leftover).

Man I’m dying for one of these now! hoovarmin

[hoovarmin]

barelfly pricing plane tickets to the Land of Enchantment...

[58limited]

Pork stock is amazing! Do it. As far as the skin, chicharones gets my vote. You can even pulverize the chicharones and use them in a pot pie crust - check out Kent Rollins' video on this on youtube.

I started saving and using scraps several years ago. I rarely throw anything away now. Bones and meat scraps go to stock - or sausage for really meaty or fatty scraps. When my friends give me a deer every year I throw all bones and trim, including tendons and such, into the stock pot. Chicken skin gets used for yakatori if I'm not frying whole pieces of chicken.

[hoovarmin]

I'm saving more and more scraps these days. With the cost of groceries it's getting to the point where it's almost foolish not to.

[PGH_RAM]

Definitely use the skin for chicharrones. So good.

Pork stock for ramen is a good move, too.

[hoovarmin]

I'm definitely doing the pork stock for ramen.

[texastweeter]

Sweet potato and hambone soup and cracklins